A Life as a Flower 04-1 [oil on canvas 16 x 18 in]
Luo Fa Hui (b.1962-) is a metaphoric painter. In traditional Chinese art, the flower always symbolized sex. Luo painted his flowers as did the American painter O’Keefe, but in a Chinese way. Chinese sex culture is depressingly gentle, dark and implicit. Luo’s roses are dark, wet, gentle and soft, have a gentle beauty, but still reek with decay. In his later work, his roses are glittering and translucent, as charming and delicate as one could ever expect.
Luo’s roses are a woman’s sensuality as rendered by a man. Perhaps many Chinese men have the gentleness and delicacy of a woman and, within their culture, are normal and natural.
(Série Artistas Chineses)
In Tao Water Art Gallery
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